| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Gravity - apple | Newton, Isaac | 96%
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| Zuckerberg, Mark | 89%
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| A dynamite name | Nobel, Alfred | 85%
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| Teacher of Plato | Socrates | 85%
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| Supreme ruler of the Ancient Greek Gods | Zeus | 85%
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| Able was I ere I saw Elba | Napoleon, Bonaparte | 81%
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| 1984 | Orwell, George | 81%
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| Cubism painting | Picasso, Pablo | 81%
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| 'To be, or not to be' | Shakespeare, William | 81%
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| Starry Night - No ear | Van Gogh, Vincent | 78%
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| China's President | Xi, Jinping | 78%
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| E.T. - Jaws - Jurassic Park etc. | Spielberg, Steven | 74%
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| Der Ring des Nibelungen - Composer | Wagner, Richard | 74%
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| Discovered X-Rays | Roentgen, Wilhelm | 70%
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| War and Peace | Tolstoy, Leo | 70%
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| Ran 100 metres against Hitler....... and won | Owens, Jesse | 67%
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| Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” | Poe, Edgar Allan | 67%
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| Anyone for Quidditch? | Rowling, Joanne | 67%
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| 'One Ring to rule them all" | Tolkien, John | 67%
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| 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' | Verne, Jules | 67%
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| Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | 63%
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| Steam Engine | Watt, James | 63%
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| The voice from Italy | Pavarotti, Luciano | 59%
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| Philosopher of the 'Republic' | Plato | 59%
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| 1812-Overture ........ Winter Dreams | Tchaikovsky, Peter | 59%
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| Alternating Current | Tesla, Nikola | 59%
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| T ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | TANGO | 56%
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| Hid in the Trojan Horse | Ulysses | 56%
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| "In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes" | Warhol, Andy | 56%
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| Airplane - the beginning | Wright, Wilbur & Orville | 56%
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| "England expects that every man will do his duty" | Nelson, Horatio | 52%
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| I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. | Oppenheimer, J. Robert | 52%
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| "J'Accuse"....... He was a moment in the human conscience | Zola, Emile | 52%
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| Tuscan capital + song bird: | Nightingale, Florence | 48%
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| P ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | PAPA | 48%
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| Immunology and the fight against germs. | Pasteur, Louis | 48%
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| R ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | ROMEO | 48%
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| Signed armistice with Richard Ist (ending Crusade) | Saladin, Al-Ayyubi | 48%
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| 'Girl with a Pearl Earing' | Vermeer, Jan | 48%
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| Popular face of Polands Struggle in the 80s | Walesa, Lech | 48%
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| X ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | X-RAY | 48%
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| O ----- NATO phonetic alphabet | OSCAR | 44%
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| Q ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | QUEBEC | 44%
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| Adventurer, fighter, lover and Elizabeth I's favourite | Raleigh, Walter | 44%
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| Built the first 'Battery' | Volta, Alessandro | 44%
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| N ------ NATO phonetic alphabet | NOVEMBER | 41%
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| W ----- NATO phonetic alphabet | WHISKEY | 41%
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| Broke the Sound Barrier 1947 | Yeager, Chuck | 41%
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| Z ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | ZULU | 41%
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| S ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | SIERRA | 37%
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| First practical programmed computer | Turing, Alan | 37%
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| U ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | UNIFORM | 37%
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| V ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | VICTOR | 37%
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| Build a Rocket - All is forgiven | Von Braun, Werner | 37%
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| 'The Time Machine' | Wells, H.G. | 37%
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| Cotton Gin | Whitney, Eli | 37%
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| 'The Importance of being Earnest" | Wilde, Oscar | 37%
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| Y ---- NATO phonetic alphabet | YANKEE | 37%
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| Early Mormon Leader - Chose Salt Lake City | Young, Brigham | 37%
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| Cellist - French Born American | Yo-Yo Ma | 37%
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| Safe Elevators | Otis, Elisha Graves | 33%
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| Vaccine against Polio | Salk Jonas | 33%
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| Made the 'Sitar' popular | Shankar, Rabindra (Ravi) | 33%
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| Discovered the atomic nucleus etc. | Rutherford, Ernest | 30%
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| The JFK Movie | Zapruder, Abraham | 30%
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| Hero to the Mexican poor | Villa, Pancho | 26%
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| A Diary and the Fire of London | Pepys, Samuel | 22%
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| Taught Confucious 'The Way' | Tzu, Lao | 22%
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| "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 19%
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| Seer of Seers? | Nostradamus | 15%
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| Popular painter and illustrator of American culture | Rockwell, Norman | 15%
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| Watercolourist - Laid the foundations for impressionists | Turner, Joseph | 15%
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| The Little Sparrow? | Piaf, Edith | 11%
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| Exodus | Uris, Leon | 7%
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